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THE  CITY  CLUB  OF  NEW  YORK 
19  WEST  34TH  STREET 


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CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Articles  of  Incorporation,   5 

By-Laws  of  Club,   31 

By-Laws  of  Council,   35 

Committees  of  Club,   GO 

Committees  of  Council,    G3 

Constitution,   9 

Council,  The     .    59 

House  Rules,   49 

In  Memoriam,     ....             ...  63 

Members,  Resident   07 

Members,  Non-Resident    .       .             ...  85 

Members,  Suburban      .      .             ...  83 

Membership,  Proposals  for   62 

Officers,  57 
Programme  of  Work,  The  Council's    .       .  .45 

Posting,   61 

Trustees,  Board  of    58 


ARTICLES  OF  INCORPORATION 


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ARTICLES  OF  INCORPORATION 


Know  all  men  by  these  presents  :  That  we,  the  undersigned, 
all  citizens  of  the  United  States,  a  majority  of  whom  are  also 
citizens  of  the  State  ol  New  York,  being  desirous  of  forming  our- 
selves into  a  societj'  or  club  for  social  and  political  purposes, 
under  the  provisions  of  Chapter  267  of  the  Laws  of  the  State 
of  New  York  in  the  year  1875,  and  the  Acts  amending  the 
same,  hereby  certify  as  follows  : 

First.— The  name  or  title  by  which  the  society  or  club  into 
which  we  desire  to  form  ourselves,  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  known 
in  law,  shall  be  "  The  City  Club  of  New  York.'' 

Second.— The  particular  business  or  object  of  such  society 
or  club  shall  be  to  promote  social  intercourse  among  persons 
specially  interested  in  the  good  government  of  the  city  of  New 
York,  in  securing  honesty  and  efficiency  in  the  administration 
of  city  affairs,  in  severing  municipal  from  national  politics,  and 
in  procuring  the  election  of  fit  persons  to  city  offices  ;  and  to 
take  such  action  as  may  tend  to  the  honest,  efficient  and  inde- 
pendent government  of  the  City  of  New  York  ;  and  for  these 
purposes,  to  establish  and  maintain  in  the  City  and  County  of 
New  York,  for  the  use  of  ourselves  and  such  others  above 
mentioned,  a  club-house,  having  a  librae,  a  reading-room,  a 
publication  office  for  the  distribution  of  the  publications  of  the 
Club,  and  such  other  appurtenances  and  belongings  as  are  usual 
in  clubs  and  club-houses,  and  publishing  offices. 

Third.— The  number  of  trustees,  directors  or  managers,  to 
manage  the  said  society  or  club,  shall  be  twenty. 

Fourth.— The  names  of  the  trustees,  directors,  and  man- 
agers of  said  society  or  club  for  the  first  year  of  its  existence 
are  :  August  Belmont,  Frederic  Bronson,  James  C.  Carter,  John 
Jay  Chap.nan,  R.  Fulton  Cutting,  W.  Bayard  Cutting,  Richard 
W.  Gilder,  William  C.  Gulliver,  J.  Noble  Hayes,  Henry 
E.    Howland,    Boudinot   Keith,  Edmond  Kelly,  J.  Frederic 


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Kernochan,  James  B.  Ludlow,  George  C.  Magoun,  J.  Harsen 
Rhoades,  W.  Harris  Roome,  William  J.  Schieffelin,  John  W. 
Simpson,  and  R.  W.  G.  Welling. 

In  witness  whereof,  we  have  to  this  certificate  respectively 
signed  our  names  this  fourth  day  of  April,  in  the  year  One 
Thousand  Eight  Hundred  and  Ninety-two. 
Edmond  Kelly,       Boudinot  Keith,      John  Jay  Chapman, 
Wm.  C.  Gulliver,    W.  Harris  Roome,    Charles  de  Kay, 
Preble  Tucker. 

STATE  OF  NEW  YORK, 
CITY  AND  COUNTY  OF  NEW  YORK, 

On  this  fourth  day  of  April,  One  Thousand  Eight  Hundred  and 
Ninety-two,  before  me  personally  came  Edmond  Kelly,  William 
C.  Gulliver,  Preble  Tucker,  Boudinot  Keith,  W.  Harris  Roome, 
John  J.  Chapman,  Charles  de  Kay,  to  me  known,  and  known 
to  me  to  be  the  individuals  described  in  and  who  executed  the 
foregoing  certificate,  and  who  severally  acknowledged  to  me 
that  they  executed  the  same  for  the  uses  and  purposes  therein 
expressed. 

Charles  W.  Pierson, 

Commissioner  of  Deeds, 

City  and  County  of  N.  Y.  No.  64. 

STATE  OF  NEW  YORK, 
CITY  AND  COUNTY  OF  NEW  YORK, 

I,  William  J.  McKenna,  Clerk  of  the  said  City  and  Count}', 
and  Clerk  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  said  State  for  said  County, 
do  certify  that  I  have  compared  the  preceding  with  the  original 
Certificate  of  Incorporation  of  The  City  Club  of  New  York  on 
file  in  my  office,  and  that  the  same  is  a  correct  transcript  there- 
from, and  of  the  whole  of  such  original.  Endorsed,  filed,  and 
recorded,  4-th  April,  1892,  2  h.  58  m. 

— — \    In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  subscribed  my 
s.  >  name  and  affixed  my  official  seal,  this  4th  day  of 
>-~~-  '  April,  1892.  Wm.  J.  McKenna,  Clerk. 


|  ss. 


CONSTITUTION 


CONSTITUTION 


SECTION  I. 

PURPOSE  OF  THE  CLUB. 

1.  The  purpose  of  The  City  Club  of  New  York  shall 
be  to  aid  in  securing  permanent  good  government  for 
the  City  of  New  York  through  the  election  and  the  ap- 
pointment of  honest  and  able  municipal  officers  and  the 
establishment  of  a  clear  and  stable  system  of  laws  re- 
lating to  the  city.  The  Club  declares  its  belief  that  the 
government  of  this  city  must  be  separated  at  all  points 
from  national  party  politics.  The  Club  will  not  take 
any  part  in  State  or  national  politics,  except  so  far  as 
the  interests  of  the  City  of  New  York  may  be  involved 
in  the  election  of  the  two  branches  of  the  State  legisla- 
ture, and  the  passage  of  State  laws. 

SECTION  II. 

TRUSTEES. 

1.  The  affairs  of  the  Club,  except  those  of  a  political 
nature,  shall  be  managed  by  a  Board  of  twenty  Trus- 
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2.  The  Club  shall,  at  its  first  annual  meeting,  elect  a 
Board  of  twenty  Trustees,  which  shall  divide  itself  into 
four  classes  of  five  Trustees  each. 

The  term  of  office  of  the  first  class  shall  expire  on  the 
first  Wednesday  of  April,  1893. 

The  term  of  office  of  the  second  class  shall  expire  on 
the  first  Wednesday  of  April,  1894. 

The  term  of  office  of  the  third  class  shall  expire  on  the 
first  Wednesday  of  April,  1895. 

The  term  of  office  of  the  fourth  class  shall  expire  on 
the  first  Wednesday  of  April,  1896. 

3.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  fill  vacancies  in  its 
own  body  until  the  next  annual  election  after  the  oc- 
currence of  the  vacancy. 

4.  Trustees  elected  to  fill  vacancies  shall  take  office 
immediately  upon  election. 

5.  Trustees  to  fill  the  offices  left  vacant  by  the  out- 
going Trustees  shall  be  elected  at  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Club  next  preceding  the  expiration  of  their  term  of 
office. 

6.  The  Trustees  shall  be  elected  for  a  term  of  four 
years. 

7.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  elect  the  officers  of  the 
Club  annually  from  its  own  members. 

8.  In  addition  to  the  Committees  provided  for  in  the 
Constitution,  the  Board  of  Trustees  may  appoint  such 
Committees  as  they  may  deem  advisable  from  their  own 
number  or  from  other  members  of  the  Club.  The 
powers  and  duties  of  Committees  shall  be  defined  by 
the  Board  of  Trustees.    Any  officer  and  any  member  of 


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any  Committee  shall  be  at  any  time  removable  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  which  shall  have  power  to  fill  vacan- 
cies. 

9.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  cause  to  be  prepared, 
annually,  a  detailed  statement  of  the  financial  condition 
of  the  Club,  showing  its  receipts  and  expenditures  for 
the  current  year,  the  number  of  members,  and  other 
matters  of  general  interest  to  the  Club  ;  and  such  state- 
ment shall  be  printed  and  a  copy  forwarded  to  each 
member  within  sixty  days  after  the  expiration  of  the 
fiscal  year,  which  shall  terminate  on  the  first  Wednesday 
in  April. 

10.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  have  power  to  accept 
resignations,  and  by  a  three-fifths  vote  of  the  whole 
Board  to  suspend  or  expel  members  from  the  Board  or 
from  the  Club.  A  three-fifths  vote  shall  not  be  neces- 
sary in  case  of  disqualification  of  a  member. 

11.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  hold  regular  monthly 
meetings.  Special  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
may  be  held  at  any  time,  upon  the  call  of  the  President 
or  of  at  least  five  Trustees. 

12.  Any  Trustee  who  shall  absent  himself  from  three 
consecutive  regular  meetings  of  the  Board  without  be- 
ing excused,  may  be  deemed  by  the  Board  of  Trustees 
to  have  tendered  the  resignation  of  his  office. 

13.  The  presiding  officer  shall,  at  the  request  of  one- 
third  of  the  members  present,  compel  any  member  of 
the  Board  to  vote  at  any  election  or  upon  any  question 
before  the  Board,  and  any  member  requested  and  re- 
fusing so  to  do  shall  cease  to  be  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees. 


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14.  Acceptance  of  public  office  by  any  Trustee  of  the 
Club  shall  operate  to  render  vacant  his  office  as  Trustee. 

SECTION  in. 

OFFICERS  OF  THE  CLUB. 

1.  The  officers  of  the  Club  shall  be  a  President,  two 
Vice-Presidents,  a  Secretary,  and  a  Treasurer. 

2.  The  President  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the 
Club  and  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  He  shall  call  a 
special  meeting  of  the  Club  when  so  requested  by  the 
council ;  or,  in  writing,  by  twenty-five  resident  mem- 
bers. 

3.  In  the  absence  of  the  President,  each  Vice-President 
in  his  order  of  precedence  shall  perform  all  the  duties  of 
the  President. 

4.  The  Secretary  shall  keep  minutes  of  the  meetings 
of  the  Club  and  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  He  shall 
conduct  such  correspondence  as  the  Board  of  Trustees 
may  direct,  and  as  falls  within  the  usual  duties  of  a  Sec- 
retary. It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  to  give 
notice  of  all  meetings  of  the  Club  or  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees. 

5.  The  Treasurer  shall  collect  and  receive  all  moneys 
of  the  Club,  except  such  as  may  be  subscribed  for  the 
purpose  of  the  council,  hereinafter  created,  and  dis- 
burse them  under  the  direction  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees. He  shall  receive  all  sums  due  from  members, 
except  such  as  may  be  subscribed  for  the  purposes  of 


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the  council,  hereinafter  created,  and  give  receipts  for 
the  same.  He  shall  keep  accurate  books  of  account, 
and  make  reports  thereof  at  the  monthly  meetings  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees.  He  shall  deposit,  in  the  name 
of  the  Club,  all  moneys  collected  by  him,  in  some  Trust 
Company  or  Bank  to  be  approved  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  to  be  drawn  out  only  in  payment  of  bills 
which  shall  have  been  approved  by  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees, or  a  Committee  by  it  appointed.  At  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Club,  and  at  the  expiration  of  his  term 
of  office,  he  shall  submit  a  final  report  with  vouchers 
for  audit. 

SECTION  IV. 

COUNCIL. 

1.  The  political  affairs  of  the  Club — that  is  to  say, 
the  affairs  of  the  Club  so  far  as  they  relate  to  "  securing 
honesty  and  efficiency  in  the  administration  of  city 
affairs,"  to  "  severing  municipal  from  national  politics," 
to  "  procuring  the  election  of  fit  persons  to  city  offices," 
and  to  the  taking  of  "  such  action  as  may  tend  to  the 
honest,  efficient,  and  independent  government  of  the 
City  of  New  York  " — shall  be  managed  by  a  Council  of 
thirteen  members. 

The  President  and  the  first  Vice-President  of  the  Club 
shall  be  ex-officio  members  of  the  Council ;  the  eleven 
remaining  members  shall  be  elected  each  year  by  the 
Club  at  its  annual  meeting. 

2.  The  Council  shall  have  power  to  initiate  action  of 


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a  political  character  in  any  of  the  matters  herein  com- 
mitted to  it ;  and  shall  make  at  each  regular  meeting  of 
the  Club  a  written  report  upon  the  work  of  such  char- 
acter done  by  it  since  the  last  preceding  regular  meeting 
of  the  Club. 

3.  The  Council  shall  have  power,  and  it  shall  be  its 
duty,  to  take  active  measures  to  obtain  subscriptions 
for  carrying  on  the  political  work  of  the  Club. 

4.  The  Council  shall  have  power  to  expend  such  sums 
of  money  as  shall  be  appropriated  to  it  by  the  Board 
of  Trustees,  or  obtained  for  its  purposes  by  voluntary 
subscriptions. 

5.  The  Council  shall  incur  no  expense  to  be  defrayed 
out  of  the  general  funds  of  the  Club,  except  in  so  far  as 
such  funds  shall  have  been  appropriated  to  it  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees. 

6.  The  officers  of  the  Council,  who  shall  be  elected 
annually  by  the  Council,  shall  be  a  Chairman,  a  Vice- 
Chairman,  a  Treasurer,  and  a  Secretary.  The  three 
first  named  shall  be  chosen  from  the  members  of  the 
Council ;  the  Secretary  may  or  may  not  be  a  Councillor, 
as  the  Council  shall  determine. 

The  Secretary  may  be  a  salaried  officer,  in  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  Council.  Should  he  be  so,  the  Council 
shall  determine  the  amount  of  his  salary  and  pay  it  out 
of  the  funds  at  its  disposal. 

7.  The  Secretary  shall  keep  minutes  of  the  meetings 
of  the  Council.  He  shall  give  notice  of  all  meetings  of 
the  Council,  and  discharge  such  other  duties  as  the 
Council  shall  prescribe  in  its  by-laws. 


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8.  The  Treasurer  shall  receive  and  collect  all  moneys 
that  may  be  appropriated  to  the  use  of  the  Council  by 
the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  all  sums  that  may  be  sub- 
scribed for  carrying  on  the  political  work  of  the  Club, 
and  disburse  them  under  the  direction  of  the  Council. 

He  shall  keep  accurate  books  of  account,  and  make 
reports  thereof  at  the  monthly  meetings  of  the  Council. 
He  shall  deposit,  in  the  name  of  the  Council,  all  moneys 
collected  by  him,  in  some  trust  company  or  bank  to  be 
approved  by  the  Council,  to  be  drawn  out  only  in  pay- 
ment of  bills  which  shall  have  been  approved  by  the 
Council.  At  the  close  of  the  year,  and  at  the  expiration 
of  his  term  of  office,  he  shall  submit  to  the  Council  a 
final  report  with  vouchers  for  audit. 

9.  The  Council  shall  cause  to  be  prepared  annually  a 
comprehensive  statement  of  the  work  done  by  it  during 
the  year,  with  a  detailed  account  of  its  receipts  and  ex- 
penditures, and  submit  the  same  to  the  Club  at  the 
annual  meeting. 

10.  The  Council  shall  hold  regular  monthly  meetings. 
Special  meetings  of  the  Council  may  be  held  at  any  time 
upon  the  call  of  its  Chairman  or  of  at  least  three  Coun- 
cillors. 

11.  Any  member  of  the  Council,  except  an  ex-officio 
member,  who  shall  absent  himself  from  three  consecu- 
tive regular  meetings  of  the  Council  without  being 
excused,  may  be  deemed  by  the  Council  to  have  tendered 
the  resignation  of  his  office. 

12.  The  presiding  officer  shall,  on  demand  of  one 
third  of  the  members  present,  request  any  member  of 


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the  Council  to  vote  upon  any  question  before  the  Coun- 
cil ;  and  any  member  so  requested  and  refusing  to  vote 
shall  cease  to  be  a  member  of  the  Council. 

13.  Acceptance  of  public  office,  or  of  nomination  for 
public  office,  by  any  Councillor,  shall,  of  itself,  terminate 
his  membership  of  the  Council. 

14.  The  Council  shall  fill  vacancies  in  its  own  body, 
except  such  as  may  be  occasioned  by  the  retirement  of 
an  ex-officio  member. 

15.  The  Council  shall  adopt  such  by-laws  for  facilita- 
ting the  conduct  of  its  business  as  it  may  deem  proper 
and  as  do  not  contravene  this  Constitution  or  any  order 
of  the  Club. 

16.  A  special  election  for  eleven  members  of  the 
Council  shall  be  held  on  the  first  day  of  December, 
1897,  and  the  members  then  elected  shall  hold  office 
until  the  first  Wednesday  of  April,  1898,  and  until  their 
successors  shall  have  been  chosen.  On  the  first  Wed- 
nesday of  April,  1898,  and  at  the  annual  elections  there- 
after, Councillors  shall  be  elected  for  a  term  of  one  year. 

SECTION  V. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

1.  The  members  of  the  Club  shall  be  divided  into  the 
following  classes : 

(1)  Resident  members,  including  all  who  reside  in  the 
City  of  New  York  during  any  part  of  the  year. 

(2)  Suburban  members,  including  all  who  reside  out- 


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side  of  the  City  of  New  York,  but  who  regularly  trans 
act  business  in  person  within  the  City  of  New  York. 

(3)  Non-resident  members,  including  all  who  neither 
reside  in  the  city  during  any  part  of  the  year  nor  carry 
on  business  within  the  city  regularly  in  person. 

The  entrance  fee  for  each  class  of  members  shall  be 
fixed  by  the  By-Laws. 

For  the  purposes  of  this  section,  the  City  of  New  York 
shall  be  understood  to  mean  the  territory  included 
within  the  City  and  County  of  New  York  on  the  first 
day  of  January,  1897. 

In  addition  to  the  classes  of  membership  before  speci- 
fied, honorary  members  may  be  from  time  to  time 
elected  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  by  a  unanimous  vote 
of  a  meeting  at  which  three-fourths  of  the  Board  shall 
be  present.  Such  honorary  members  shall  have  no  vote 
at  the  meetings  of  the  Club,  and  shall  not  be  entitled  to 
hold  office  as  Trustee  ;  nor  shall  such  members  be  sub- 
ject to  the  payment  of  entrance  fees  or  dues,  but  they 
shall  be  subject  to  all  other  rules  and  regulations  of  the 
Club. 

2.  Resident  members  shall  pay  semi-annual  dues  of 
twenty-five  dollars,  payable  on  qualifying  as  such,  and 
on  the  first  Wednesdays  of  April  and  October.  Suburban 
members  shall  pay  annual  dues  of  twenty-five  dollars, 
payable  on  the  first  Wednesday  of  April.  Non-resident 
members  shall  pay  annual  dues  of  fifteen  dollars,  payable 
on  the  first  Wednesday  of  April. 

3.  Any  member  or  member-elect  may  become  a  life 
member  by  the  payment  of  one  thousand  dollars,  and  in 


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such  case  he  shall  not  be  further  liable  for  dues,  but  shall 
have  all  the  privileges  and  rights  of  a  resident  member, 
and  shall  be  subject  to  the  provisions  as  to  expulsion  or 
suspension. 

4.  All  members  hereafter  admitted  to  the  Club,  except 
life  members,  shall  pay  proportionate  dues  for  the 
remainder  of  the  Club  year  in  which  they  are  admitted. 

5.  Members  shall  not  be  required  to  pay  dues  for  any 
year  during  the  whole  of  which  they  shall  be  absent 
from  the  United  States,  provided  they  shall  have  given 
notice  in  writing  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  such  pro- 
posed absence  in  advance. 

6.  Any  person  elected  to  membership  who  shall  fail 
to  qualify  for  two  months  after  notice  of  his  election, 
may  be  considered  to  have  declined  his  election,  and  the 
same  election  may  be  declared  void  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees. 

7.  Any  member  in  good  standing,  and  not  indebted  to 
the  Club,  may  withdraw  by  resigning,  and  shall  thereby 
relinquish  all  right  in  the  property  of  the  Club. 

8.  Resignations  of  membership  shall  be  made  to  the 
Secretary  in  writing. 

9.  All  notices  mailed  to  addresses  recorded  on  the 
Club  books  shall  be  valid  for  all  purposes. 

10.  Any  member  neglecting  to  pay  his  dues,  or  any 
debt  to  the  Club,  for  the  space  of  two  months  after  his 
name  shall  have  been  posted,  shall  cease  to  be  a  mem- 
ber unless  excused  by  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


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SECTION  VI. 

HOLDING  OVER  IN  OFFICE. 

Officers  of  the  Club  and  members  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  of  the  Council,  and  of  the  Committee  on 
Membership,  shall  hold  over,  in  office  until  their  success- 
ors shall  have  been  chosen.  Committees  appointed  by 
the  Board  of  Trustees  or  the  Council  shall  hold  over 
until  the  Board  of  Trustees  or  the  Council,  as  the  case 
may  be,  shall  replace  them,  or  shall  otherwise  direct. 

SECTION  VII. 

COMMITTEES. 

1.  There  shall  be  the  following  standing  committees, 
which  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and 
may  be  composed,  in  part,  of  members  who  are  not 
Trustees : 

(1)  An  Audit  Committee  of  three  members. 

(2)  A  House  Committee  of  three  members. 

(3)  A  Committee  on  the  Library  of  three  members — 
one  of  whom  shall  be  a  Councillor. 

2.  There  shall  be  the  following  standing  committees, 
which  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Council,  and  may  be 
composed,  in  part,  of  members  who  are  not  Council- 
lors : 

(1)  A  Committee  on  Legislation,  number  to  be  deter- 
mined by  the  Council. 


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(2)  A  Committee  on  Municipal  Government,  number 
to  be  determined  by  the  Council. 

(3)  A  Committee  on  Co-operation  and  Affiliated 
Clubs,  of  three  members. 

(4)  A  Committee  on  Organization  of  three  members. 

(5)  A  Committee  on  Publication  and  Records  of  three 
members. 


SECTION  VIII. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MEMBERSHIP. 

1.  This  Committee  shall  elect  to  membership  in  the 
Club.  It  shall  consist  of  nineteen  members.  One  of 
its  members  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees and  shall  act  as  chairman  of  the  Committee.  The 
term  of  office  of  this  member  shall  be  for  one  year  and 
until  the  first  annual  meeting  after  his  appointment. 
The  Committee  on  Membership  now  existing  shall 
hold  office  until  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Club  for 
1897.  Twelve  of  the  members  of  such  Committee  (of 
whom  the  chairman  shall  not  be  one),  to  be  determined 
by  lot,  shall  thereafter  continue  as  members  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Membership,  and  they  shall  divide  themselves 
into  two  classes  of  six  members  each,  one  class  to  hold 
office  until  the  first  and  the  other  until  the  second  an- 
nual meeting  next  thereafter.  Six  members  of  the 
Committee  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  at  each  annual 
meeting  of  the  Club,  to  replace  the  out-going  class,  and 


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to  take  office  at  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  such  out- 
going class.  The  terra  of  office  of  the  members  so 
elected  shall  be  three  years  and  until  the  third  annual 
meeting  after  their  election.  The  names  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Committee  shall  remain  posted  in  a  con- 
spicuous place  in  the  Club-house.  The  Committee  may 
adopt  such  rules  for  its  own  guidance  as  it  shall  deem 
for  the  best  interests  of  the  Club,  and  as  are  not  repug- 
nant to  this  Constitution,  to  the  By-Laws,  or  to  any 
order  of  the  Club. 

2.  The  Committee  shall  meet  at  least  once  in  each 
month,  except  June,  July,  and  August. 

3.  The  name  of  every  candidate  for  membership  in 
the  Club  shall  remain  posted  for  at  least  two  weeks  in 
a  conspicuous  place  in  the  Club-house  before  action  on 
his  nomination. 

4.  Ten  members  of  the  Committee  shall  constitute  a 
quorum,  and  two  negative  votes  shall  reject  a  can- 
didate. 

SECTION  IX. 

THE  AUDIT,  HOUSE,  AND  LIBRARY  COMMITTEES. 

The  Audit,  House,  and  Library  Committees  shall 
have  the  usual  powers  and  duties  of  such  Committees. 


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SECTION  X. 

COMMITTEE  OX  LEGISLATION. 

The  duties  of  this  Committee  shall  be  to  observe  the 
action  of  the  Legislature  at  Albany,  and  to  advance  the 
objects  of  the  Club  by  the  promotion  of,  or  opposition 
to,  suggested  legislation  so  far  as  it  may  be  deemed 
expedient. 

SECTION  XI. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MUNICIPAL  GOVERNMENT. 

The  duties  of  this  Committee  shall  be  to  examine  into 
the  requirements  of  the  Municipal  Government  and  into 
the  operation  of  that  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and 
from  time  to  time  to  report  upon  the  same  and  to  sug- 
gest measures  for  its  improvement,  and  to  carry  out 
such  measures  in  relation  thereto  as  may  be  approved 
by  the  Council. 

SECTION  XII. 

COMMITTEE  ON  CO-OPERATION   AND   AFFILIATED  CLUBS. 

The  duties  of  this  Committee  shall  consist  in  securing 
the  ?o-operation  of  all  societies,  whether  philanthropic 
or  political,  the  aim  of  which  is  to  improve  social  con- 
ditions, and  in  concentrating  the  efforts  of  such  soci- 
eties in  the  direction  of  the  purposes  of  the  City  Club, 


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and  in  drawing  up  a  plan  for  organizing  affiliated  Clubs, 
and  ultimately  in  carrying  out  such  plan  when  approved 
by  the  Council. 

SECTION  XIII. 

COMMITTEE  OX  ORGANIZATION. 

The  duties  of  this  Committee  shall  consist  in  formu- 
lating a  plan  for  enrolling  all  citizens  of  this  city,  whether 
members  or  not  members  of  the  Club,  in  an  organization 
for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  execution  the  objects 
of  this  Club,  and  ultimately  of  co-operation  with  such 
organization  and  kindred  organizations  at  such  time 
and  in  such  manner  as  the  Council  may  direct. 

SECTION  XIV. 

COMMITTEE  ON  PUBLICATION  AND  RECORDS. 

The  duties  of  this  Committee  shall  consist  in  keeping 
a  careful  record  of  all  the  work  done  by  the  Club,  and 
in  preparing  documents. 

SECTION  XV. 

GE>- ERAL  RULES  GOVERNING  STANDING  COMMITTEES. 

1.  The  Committees  on  Legislation,  Municipal  Gov- 
ernment, Co-operation  and  Affiliated  Clubs,  and  Pub- 


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lication  and  Records  shall  take  no  action  without  the 
express  authorization  of  the  Council. 

2.  Every  Committee  appointed  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees  or  the  Council  shall  be  required  to  make  a 
monthly  report  in  writing  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  or 
the  Council,  as  the  case  may  be,  setting  forth  in  general 
but  sufficient  terms  the  work  done  during  the  month. 

3.  Every  Committee  of  over  ten  members  shall  be  at 
liberty  to  appoint  an  Executive  Board. 


SECTION  XVI. 

MEETINGS. 

1.  There  shall  be  an  annual  meeting  of  the  Club  on 
the  first  Wednesday  of  April  in  each  year,  for  the  election 
of  Trustees,  Councillors,  and  members  of  the  Committee 
on  Membership,  and  for  the  transaction  of  such  other 
business  as  may  properly  be  brought  before  such  meeting. 

2.  The  voting  at  such  election  of  members  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  shall  be  by  ballot,  and  the  candi- 
dates receiving  the  highest  number  of  votes  shall  be 
elected. 

3.  Regular  meetings  of  the  Club  shall  be  held  on  the 
first  Wednesdays  of  February,  June,  October,  and  De- 
cember. 

4.  A  special  meeting  of  the  Club  shall  be  held  upon 
the  call  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  or,  if  requested  by 


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the  Council,  or,  in  writing  by  at  least  twenty-five  resi- 
dent members  of  the  Club,  upon  the  call  of  the  President. 
Five  days'  notice  in  writing  of  such  meeting  shall  be 
given  to  the  resident  members  of  the  Club,  mailed  to 
their  given  addresses  recorded  in  the  Club  books.  This 
notice  shall  contain  a  statement  of  the  object  of  suck 
special  meeting,  and  no  subject  not  so  stated  shall  be 
considered. 

5.  Fifty  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  of  any 
general  or  special  meeting  of  the  Club. 

SECTION  XVII. 

BY-LAWS  AND  CLUB  RULES. 

By-Laws,  except  those  of  the  Council,  and  Club  Rules 
may  be  made,  altered,  or  repealed  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees  at  any  time,  and  shall  take  effect  upon  the 
posting  of  the  same  at  the  Club-house. 

SECTION  XVIII. 

AMENDMENT. 

The  Constitution  may  be  amended  by  a  vote  of  a 
majority  of  the  whole  Board  of  Trustees  and  of  the 
Council,  approved  at  a  meeting  of  the  Club  by  a  two- 
thirds  vote,  or  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  Club  at  a 
meeting  called  for  the  purpose  ;  but  no  amendment  to 


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the  Constitution  can  be  voted  upon  at  any  meeting  of 
the  Club  unless  such  amendment  has  been  posted  in  the 
Club-house  for  at  least  three  weeks  prior  to  such  meet 
ing,  and  a  copy  of  such  proposed  amendment  mailed  to 
each  member  at  his  registered  address  in  the  Club-book, 
at  least  two  weeks  prior  to  the  time  when  such  meeting 
is  to  occur. 

SECTION  XIX. 

TIME  OF  TAKING  EFFECT. 

This  Constitution,  as  amended,  shall  be  in  effect  on 
and  after  the  first  day  of  December,  1897. 


BY-LAWS 


BY-LAWS  OF  THE  CLUB. 


SECTION  I. 

ORDER  OF  BUSINESS. 

The  following  order  of  business  shall  be  observed  at 
meetings  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  : — 

(1)  Reading  the  Minutes  of  the  previous  meeting. 

(2)  Report  of  Treasurer. 

(3)  Report  of  Secretary. 

(4)  Reports  of  Standing  Committees. 

(5)  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

(6)  Unfinished  Business. 

(7)  Miscellaneous  Business. 

SECTION  II. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

1.  Names  of  candidates  for  membership  must  be  pro- 
posed and  seconded  in  writing.  The  proposal  shall 
contain  the  name  of  the  candidate  in  full,  his  business 
and  residence  address,  the  nature  of  his  business,  and 


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his  qualifications  for  membership,  and  must  be  accom- 
panied by  letters  from  both  proposer  and  seconder. 

2.  Candidates  for  resident  membership  must  be  pro- 
posed and  seconded  by  resident  members  of  the  Club, 
other  than  members  of  the  Committee  on  Membership. 
Candidates  for  suburban  or  for  non-resident  member- 
ship may  be  proposed  and  seconded  by  resident,  sub- 
urban or  non-resident  members  of  the  Club  other  than 
members  of  the  Committee  on  Membership. 

3.  Balloting  for  members  shall  take  place  only  at 
regular  meetings  of  the  Committee  on  Membership. 

4.  Any  member  of  the  Committee  on  Membership 
may,  before  the  adjournment  of  the  Committee,  move 
the  reconsideration  of  a  vote  of  admission  or  exclusion, 
but  after  an  adjournment  no  rejected  candidate  shall  be 
again  proposed  within  six  months. 

5.  No  conversation  nor  debate  upon  the  subject  of 
admissions,  exclusions,  expulsions,  and  no  proceeding 
in  reference  to  any  member,  nor  the  substance  of  the 
same,  shall  be  disclosed  by  any  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  or  the  Committee  on  Membership. 

6.  On  the  election  of  each  new  member  the  Secretary 
shall  forthwith  notify  him  thereof,  furnish  him  with  a 
copy  of  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the  Club,  re- 
quest him  to  pay  to  the  Treasurer  the  amount  of  the 
initiation  fee  and  dues,  and  sign  the  Constitution. 

7.  Until  the  membership  shall  have  reached  the  num- 
ber of  seven  hundred  and  fifty  persons,  the  entrance  fees 
of  fifty  dollars  for  resident  members  and  twenty-five 
dollars  for  suburban  members  shall  be  remitted. 


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8.  Every  newly  elected  resident  member  shall  pay  dues 
at  the  rate  of  four  dollars  a  month  for  the  remainder  of 
the  fiscal  half-year  of  the  Club,  exclusive  of  the  month 
in  which  he  is  elected.  Each  newly  elected  suburban 
member  shall  pay  dues  at  the  rate  of  two  dollars  a  month 
for  the  remainder  of  the  fiscal  half-year  of  the  Club,  ex- 
clusive of  the  month  in  which  he  is  elected.  Every 
newly  elected  non-resident  member  shall  pay  dues  at  the 
rate  of  one  dollar  a  month  for  the  remainder  of  the  fiscal 
half-year  of  the  Club,  exclusive  of  the  month  in  which 
he  is  elected. 

9.  Any  member  of  the  Club  who  has  resigned,  in 
good  standing,  may,  if  re-elected,  be  credited  with  the 
amount  of  any  initiation  fee  paid  by  him. 

10.  The  Secretary  shall  post  the  names  of  all  mem- 
bers reported  by  the  Treasurer  to  be  indebted  to  the 
Club,  immediately  after  the  meetings  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  in  May  and  November,  and  the  date  of  post- 
ing shall  be  communicated  to  the  members  in  arrears. 

A  copy  of  this  B)'-Law  shall  be  printed  in  the  notice 
calling  for  the  payment  of  dues. 

SECTION  III. 

COMMITTEES. 

1.  All  standing  committees  shall  be  appointed  an- 
nually by  the  Board  of  Trustees  at  its  regular  monthly 
meeting  in  November. 

2.  A  fine  of  five  dollars  shall  be  imposed  upon  the 
chairman  of  any  standing  committee  who  fails  to  make 
a  monthly  report  in  writing  to  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


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SECTION  IV. 

GUESTS 

The  House  Committee  may  make  such  rules  as  it 
may  deem  expedient  in  relation  to  granting  the  privi- 
leges of  the  Club  to  persons  not  members. 

SECTION  V. 

COMPLAINTS. 

All  complaints  and  suggestions  in  regard  to  the  man- 
agement of  the  Club  shall  be  made  in  writing  to  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


BY-LAWS  OF  THE  COUNCIL 

[Adopted  2nd  March,  1900.] 


SECTION  I. 

MEETINGS  OF  COUNCIL. 

1.  Regular  monthly  meetings  of  the  Council  shall  be 
held  at  the  Club-house  on  the  fourth  Thursday  of  each 
month,  at  8:30  o'clock  p.  If. 

2.  A  special  meeting  may  be  called  at  any  time  by  the 
chairman,  and  must  be  called  b}'  him  on  the  written  re- 
quest of  five  members. 

SECTION  II. 

ORDER  OF  BUSINESS. 

The  following  order  of  business  shall  be  observed  at 
meetings  of  the  Council : — 

(1)  Reading  the  minutes  of  the  previous  meeting. 

(2)  Report  of  Treasurer. 

(3)  Report  of  Secretary. 

(4)  Reports  of  Standing  Committees. 

(5)  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

(6)  Unfinished  business. 

(7)  Miscellaneous  business. 


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SECTION  III. 
QUORUM  OF  COUNCIL. 

A  quorum  of  the  Council  shall  consist  of  five  members 
present  and  voting. 

SECTION  IV. 

COMMITTEES. 

1.  The  Standing  Committees  of  the  Council  shall  be  : 
Committee  on  Legislation. 

Committee  on  Municipal  Government. 
Committee  on  Co-operation  and  Affiliated  Clubs. 
Committee  on  Organization. 
Committee  on  Publication  and  Records. 
Finance  Committee. 

2.  The  chairmen  of  the  standing  committees  shall  be 
appointed  by  and  from  the  Council.  Each  standing 
committee  shall  elect  a  vice-chairman. 

3.  The  members  of  each  standing  committee  other 
than  the  chairman  may  be  appointed  from  the  member- 
ship of  the  Club  at  large. 

SECTION  V. 

COMMITTEE  ON  LEGISLATION. 

1.  The  Committee  on  Legislation  shall  consist  of 
thirteen  members,  of  whom  the  Council  shall  appoint  at 
least  seven.  The  remaining  members  of  the  committee 
may  be  appointed  by  the  committee  itself. 


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2.  A  quorum  of  the  Committee  on  Legislation  shall 
consist  of  five  members  present  and  voting. 

3.  Any  measure  pending  before  the  State  Legislature 
ma}r  be  disapproved  in  the  name  of  the  Club  by  the 
Committee  on  Legislation,  provided  not  less  than  five 
members  concur  in  such  disapproval.  The  committee 
may  commit  the  Club  to  the  approval  of  any  measure 
before  the  Legislature  or  to  be  presented  for  legislative 
action,  provided  : — 

(1)  The  Council  shall  have  pronounced  in  favor  ofthe 
principles  involved  in  such  measure  ;  and 

(2)  Seven  members  ofthe  committee  vote  in  favor  of 
such  measure. 

4.  The  initiation  of  affirmative  action  on  the  part  of 
the  Club  may  proceed  from  the  Council  or  from  the 
Committee  on  Legislation.  The  Council  shall  determine 
the  principles  upon  which  such  affirmative  action  shall 
be  taken  ;  within  the  limitations  of  these  principles  the 
Committee  on  Legislation  shall  be  free  to  perfect  the 
measures  to  carry  them  into  effect. 

5.  For  special  work  the  Committee  on  Legislation 
may  appoint  sub-committees  either  from  within  or  from 
without  the  membership  of  the  Club,  but  the  Committee 
on  Legislation  shall  be  responsible  for  the  action  of  such 
sub-committees. 

6.  Any  member  of  the  Committee  on  Legislation  who 
is  absent  from  three  consecutive  meetings  of  the  com- 
mittee, or  who  fails  at  two  consecutive  meetings  to  re- 
port upon  any  legislative  bill  referred  to  him,  shall  cease 
to  be  a  member  of  the  committee. 


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SECTION  VI. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MUNICIPAL  GOVERNMENT. 

1.  The  Committee  on  Municipal  Government  shall 
consist  of  thirteen  members,  of  whom  the  Council  shall 
appoint  at  least  seven.  The  remaining  members  of  the 
committee  may  be  appointed  by  the  committee  itself. 

2.  A  quorum  of  the  Committee  on  Municipal  Govern- 
ment shall  consist  of  five  members,  present  and  voting. 

3.  Any  measure  pending  before  the  municipal  govern- 
ment, or  any  branch  or  department  thereof,  may  be 
disapproved  in  the  name  of  the  Club  by  the  Committee 
on  Municipal  Government,  provided  not  less  than  five 
members  concur  in  such  disapproval.  The  committee 
may  commit  the  Club  to  the  approval  of  any  such 
measure,  provided  :— 

(1)  The  Council  shall  have  pronounced  in  favor  of 
the  principles  involved  in  such  measure  ;  and 

(2)  Seven  members  of  the  committee  vote  in  favor  of 
such  measure. 

4.  The  initiation  of  affirmative  action  on  the  part  of 
the  Club  may  proceed  from  the  Council  or  from  the 
Committee  on  Municipal  Government.  The  Council 
shall  determine  the  principles  upon  which  such  affirma- 
tive action  shall  be  taken.  Within  the  limitations  of 
these  principles  the  standing  Committee  on  Municipal 
Government  shall  be  free  to  perfect  the  measures  to 
carry  them  into  effect. 

5.  For  special  work  the  Committee  on  Municipal 


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Government  may  appoint  sub-committees,  either  from 
within  or  from  without  the  membership  of  the  Club,  but 
the  Standing  Committee  on  Municipal  Government 
shall  be  responsible  for  the  action  of  such  sub-commit- 
tees. 

6.  Any  member  of  the  Committee  on  Municipal 
Government  who  is  absent  from  three  successive  meet- 
ings of  the  committee,  or  who  fails  at  two  successive 
meetings  to  report  upon  any  subject  referred  to  him, 
shall  cease  to  be  a  member  of  the  committee. 

SECTION  VII. 

COMMITTEE    ON    CO-OPERATION    AND    AFFILIATED  CLUBS. 

1.  The  Committee  on  Co-operation  and  Affiliated 
Clubs  shall  consist  of  three  members  appointed  by  the 
Council. 

SECTION  VIII. 

COMMITTEE  ON  ORGANIZATION. 

1.  The  Committee  on  Organization  shall  consist  of 
three  members  appointed  by  the  Council. 

SECTION  IX. 

COMMITTEE  ON  PUBLICATION  AND  RECORDS. 

1.  The  Committee  on  Publication  and  Records  shall 
consist  of  three  members  appointed  by  the  Council. 


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SECTION  X. 

FINANCES  AND  FINANCE  COMMITTEE. 

1.  The  fiscal  year  of  the  Council  shall  be  the  calendar 
year. 

2.  The  Finance  Committee  shall  consist  of  at  least, 
five  members,  appointed  by  the  Council,  with  power  to 
appoint  additional  members. 

3.  Subject  to  the  action  of  the  Council,  the  Finance 
Committee  shall  administer  the  finances  of  the  Council 
in  accordance  with  these  By-Laws. 

4.  The  Finance  Committee  shall  hold  regular  monthly 
meetings,  at  such  time  as  the  Committee  may  determine. 

5.  At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Council  held  in  Decem- 
ber, the  Finance  Committee  shall  submit  a  budget  contain- 
ing a  statement  of  the  estimated  receipts  and  expendi- 
tures for  the  succeeding  fiscal  year.  The  Council  shall  at 
this  meeting,  with  due  regard  to  the  probable  income, 
allot  and  appropriate  to  each  part  of  the  work  of  the 
Council  a  sum  for  its  maintenance  during  the  succeeding 
fiscal  year. 

6.  All  payments  shall  be  by  check  upon  presenta- 
tion of  vouchers  duly  certified  and  approved.  Each 
voucher  shall,  as  far  as  practicable,  contain  items  charge- 
able to  one  class  of  expenditures  only.  Each  voucher 
shall  be  properly  certified  as  to  correctness  by  the 
authority  ordering  the  expenditure,  and  shall  be  ap- 
proved for  payment  by  the  Chairman  or  the  Vice-Chair- 
man of  the  Finance  Committee,  except  that  in  case  of 


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salaries  of  emploj-ees  engaged  upon  authority  of  the 
Finance  Committee,  and  in  the  case  of  expenditures  for 
postage  and  petty  cash  expenses,  the  approval  for  pay- 
ment of  the  Secretary  of  the  Council  upon  the  voucher 
shall  be  sufficient. 

7.  Each  voucher  shall  state  upon  its  face  the  account 
to  which  it  is  chargeable. 

8.  The  Treasurer  of  the  Council  shall  keep  a  check 
book,  a  cash  book  and  a  ledger.  All  receipts  and  ex- 
penditures shall  be  entered  in  the  cash  book.  Each 
voucher,  upon  being  entered  in  the  cash  book,  shall  be 
numbered,  and  the  number,  together  with  a  summary  of 
the  nature  of  the  expenditure,  shall  be  duly  set  forth. 
The  number  of  the  check  by  which  payment  is  made 
shall  also  be  entered.  The  Ledger  shall  contain  the 
following  accounts  : 

General  Fund. 

An  account  for  any  fund  raised  for  a  special  purpose, 
the  title  of  the  account  to  indicate  the  nature 
of  the  fund. 

Office  salaries  (including  Secretary's). 

Printing. 

Library  and  Binding. 
Postage. 

Telephone,  Messenger  Service,  etc. 
Stationery  and  Office  Supplies. 
General  Expense. 
Newspapers  and  Periodicals. 
Furniture. 


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Legislation  Committee. 
Municipal  Government  Committee. 
An  account  setting  forth  the  expenditures  for  any 
purpose  for  which  a  special  appropriation  is 
made  by  the  Council,  the  title  of  such  account 
to  indicate  as  clearly  as  possible  the  object  of 
the  appropriation. 
The  Treasurer  shall  submit  to  the  Finance  Committee 
at  each  monthly  meeting  a  balance  sheet  of  the  ledger 
accounts  taken  at  the  close  of  business  on  the  last  day 
of  the  preceding  month.    He  shall  also  submit  a  state- 
ment showing  the  disposition  of  the  cash  balance  at  the 
time  of  taking  the  balance  sheet. 

9.  No  expenditure  exceeding  two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  shall  be  authorized  by  any  standing  committee, 
or  by  any  special  committee  of  the  Council  for  whose 
use  an  appropriation  is  made,  without  the  approval  in 
advance  of  the  Chairman  or  the  Vice-Chairman  of  the 
Finance  Committee. 

10.  All  expenditures  made  by  any  standing  com- 
mittee or  any  special  committee  of  the  Council,  shall  be 
duly  entered  in  the  minutes  of  the  committee,  together 
with  the  action  of  the  committee  approving  such  ex- 
penditures. 

SECTION  XI. 

SECRETARY  OF  THE  COUNCIL. 

1.  The  Secretary  of  the  Council  shall  hold  no  other 
office  in  the  Club. 


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2.  The  Secretary  shall  be  paid  an  annual  salary  to  be 
fixed  by  the  Council. 

3.  The  Secretary  shall  have  his  office  at  such  place  as 
the  Council  shall  designate,  and  shall  be  at  the  service 
of  the  Council  and  of  all  its  committees. 

SECTION  XII. 

VACANCIES  IN  THE  COUNCIL. 

Vacancies  in  the  Council  shall  be  filled  by  nomination 
and  by  election  by  ballot. 

SECTION  XIII. 

AMENDMENT. 

1.  These  By-Laws  may  be  repealed,  altered,  or  amend- 
ed by  a  majority  vote  of  not  less  than  seven  members  of 
the  Council  at  any  regular  meeting  next  following  a 
meeting  at  which  such  repeal,  alteration,  or  amendment 
shall  have  been  proposed. 

2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  to  supply  every 
member  of  the  Council  with  a  written  copy  of  such  pro- 
posed repeal,  alteration  or  amendment,  immediately 
after  the  same  shall  have  been  introduced. 


THE  COUNCIL'S 
PROGRAMME  OF  WORK 


PROGRAMME  OF  WORK 


ADOPTED  BY 

THE  COUNCIL  OF  THE  CITY  CLUB  OF  NEW  YORK 
10th  April,  1900. 

1.  — The  enactment  of  a  law  to  forbid  the  payment  of 
political  assessments  or  contributions  by  candidates  for 
judicial  office. 

2.  — The  enactment  of  the  amendments  to  the  election 
law  proposed  by  the  Club  and  introduced  in  the  Senate 
in  1900  by  Senator  Elsberg,  and  in  the  Assembly  by  Mr. 
Fallows. 

3.  — The  enactment  of  a  law  to  secure  freedom  of 
nominations  to  public  elective  office. 

4.  — Consideration  of  the  subject  of  proportional,  or 
minority,  representation,  and  the  preparation  of  legis- 
lation upon  the  subject. 

5.  — Watching  and  reporting  upon  proposed  legislation 
affecting  the  City  of  New  York,  and  endeavoring  to  se- 
cure the  enactment  of  desirable  measures  and  to  de- 
feat improper  measures. 

6.  —  Consideration  of  the  subject  of  water  supply,  and 
advocacy  of  proper  legislation  to  protect  the  interests 
of  the  city,  and  to  insure  the  continuance  of  the  policy 


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of  municipal  ownership  of  water  works.  Continued 
efforts  to  impress  upon  the  city  authorities  and  the  pub- 
lic the  facts  in  connection  with  the  enormous  prevent- 
able loss  and  waste  of  water. 

7.  — Watching  and  reporting  upon  the  work  of  the 
municipal  assembly,  and  upon  the  administration  of  the 
departments  of  the  city  government  as  occasion  may 
arise. 

8.  — Watching  and  reporting  upon  the  work  of  the 
Board  of  Education  and  the  School  Boards,  and  advo- 
cating a  proper  educational  system,  such  as  that  em- 
bodied in  the  bills  approved  by  The  City  Club  this  year. 

9.  — Careful  and  full  investigation  of  the  subject  of  the 
public  franchises  in  the  city. 

10.  — Watching  and  reporting  upon  the  work  of  the 
Charter  Revision  Commission. 

11.  — Publication  of  documents  relating  to  the  above 
subjects. 


HOUSE  RULES 


HOUSE  RULES 


RULE  I. 

HOURS. 

1.  The  house  will  be  opened  at  seven  o'clock  A.M. 
Members  will  not  be  admitted  after  one  o'clock  A.M. 

2.  The  restaurant  will  be  opened  at  seven  thirty  o'clock 
A.M.  and  will  be  closed,  except  when  otherwise  ordered 
by  the  House  Committee,  at  nine  o'clock  P.M.  The 
dinner  of  the  da\-  will  be  served  from  six  o'clock  to 
eight  o'clock  P.M. 

3.  The  bar  will  be  opened  at  seven  thirty  o'clock  A.M. 
and  will  be  closed  at  one  o'clock  A.M. 

RULE  II. 

RESTRICTIONS. 

1.  Smoking  will  not  be  permitted  in  the  main  dining- 
room  before  eight  o'clock  P.M.,  but  will  be  permitted  in 
the  small  dining-room  adjoining  the  reading-room,  and 
in  other  parts  of  the  Club-house  at  an}-  hour. 

2.  No  game  or  play  for  a  wager  or  stake  will  be  per- 
mitted in  any  part  of  the  Club-house,  and  any  member 
violating  this  rule  will  be  liable  to  expulsion. 


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3.  No  member  or  guest  of  the  Club  shall  give  a  fee  or 
gratuity  of  any  kind,  to  any  employee  of  the  Club,  ex- 
cept on  the  annual  subscription  list.  Any  employee  re- 
ceiving a  fee  or  gratuity  in  violation  of  this  rule  will  be 
at  once  dismissed. 

4.  No  servant  of  the  Club  shall  be  sent  out  of  the 
Club-house  for  any  purpose.  On  application  at  the 
office,  messengers  will  be  furnished  at  the  regular  mes- 
senger rates. 

5.  No  subscription  paper  or  notice  of  any  description, 
other  than  official  notices,  shall  be  posted  in  the  Club- 
house or  circulated  in  the  Club  without  the  permission 
of  the  House  Committee. 

6.  No  newspapers,  magazines,  books  or  other  articles, 
the  property  of  the  Club,  shall  be  removed  from  the 
library  or  reading-room  ;  nor  shall  they  be  cut,  marked 
or  otherwise  defaced. 

7.  Loud  conversation  will  not  be  permitted  in  the 
reading-room. 

RULE  III. 

ACCOUNTS. 

1.  On  the  first  day  of  each  month,  or  as  soon  there- 
after as  practicable,  a  £rst  notice  shall  be  sent  to  each 
member,  showing  the  amount  of  his  indebtedness  to  the 
Club  on  the  last  day  of  the  preceding  month.  If  such 
indebtedness  exceed  $10  and  is  not  paid  within  two 
weeks  after  the  mailing  of  such  notice,  the  name  of  the 


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member,  with  the  amount  due,  shall  be  posted,  and 
such  member  shall  be  refused  further  credit  until  his  in- 
debtedness is  discharged. 

2.  On  the  expiration  of  two  weeks  after  the  mailing 
of  the  first  notice  of  indebtedness,  if  the  indebtedness 
exceed  $10  and  remain  unpaid,  a  second  notice  shall  be 
mailed  to  the  member,  notifying  him  of  the  date  on 
which  his  name  shall  have  been  posted  and  that  in  the 
event  of  his  failure  to  pay  his  indebtedness,  as  provided 
in  Article  X,  Section  5,  of  the  Constitution,  he  will  be 
charged  with  such  failure  at  the  next  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees. 

3.  Whensoever  a  member  shall  become  indebted  to 
the  Club  in  the  sum  of  $100  or  more,  he  shall  be  imme- 
diately notified  thereof,  and  upon  his  failure  to  pay  such 
indebtedness  forthwith,  his  credit  shall  be  suspended 
until  such  indebtedness  shall  have  been  discharged. 

4.  Payments  shall  be  made  only  to  the  office  (if  by 
check,  to  the  order  of  The  City  Club  of  New  York),  and 
vouchers  for  the  amount  paid  will  be  delivered  to  mem- 
bers upon  payment. 

5.  Members  may  have  their  checks  cashed  at  the  office 
for  an  amount  not  exceeding  $25  in  one  day. 

6.  All  orders  and  alterations  of  orders  must  be  signed 
by  members. 

RULE  IV. 

COMPLAINTS. 

All  requests  and  complaints  regarding  the  restaurant, 
bar,  or  service  of  the  Club  must  be  made  in  writing, 


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signed,  addressed  to  the  House  Committee,  and  de- 
posited in  the  box  provided  for  the  purpose  at  the 
office. 

RULE  V. 

VISITORS. 

1.  Any  member  may  introduce  one  or  more  visitors 
for  one  day  to  the  privileges  of  the  Club,  but  no  person 
shall  be  so  introduced  more  than  once  in  each  month. 

2.  Persons  not  residing  in  the  City  of  New  York  may 
be  introduced  by  a  member  as  visitors  for  one  week.  A 
renewal  of  this  privilege  for  an  additional  week  may  be 
granted  on  application  to  the  House  Committee. 

3.  Any  invitation  or  privilege  extended  to  visitors  may 
be  withdrawn  or  cancelled  by  the  House  Committee. 

4.  The  names  and  residences  of  all  visitors,  and  the 
names  of  the  members  introducing  them,  must  be  re- 
corded in  the  book  kept  for  that  purpose,  and  members 
shall  be  held  responsible  for  their  guests  in  all  respects, 
including  their  indebtedness  to  the  Club. 

5.  The  privileges  of  the  house  and  the  restaurant 
will  be  extended  to  ladies,  introduced  by  members  in 
person  or  by  card,  on  any  day  between  the  hours  of 
eleven  o'clock  A.M.  and  four  o'clock  P.M. 


OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEES 


OFFICERS 

1900 


PRESIDENT, 

WHEELER  H.  PECKHAM. 

VICE-PRESIDENT, 

R.  FULTON  CUTTING. 

SECRETARY, 

CHARLES  H.  STRONG. 


TREASURER, 

ALFRED  R.  CONKLING. 


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BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 


CLASS  OF  1901. 
R.  Fulton  Cutting,  Thomas  A.  Phelan, 

Charles  C.  Nadal,  Howard  Townsend, 

Richard  A.  Zerega. 

CLASS  OF  1902. 
Alfred  R.  Conkling,        J.  Noble  Hayes, 
Paul  Fuller,  Frederick  Middlebrook, 

J.  G.  Phelps  Stokes. 

CLASS  OF  1903. 
James  R.  Burnet,  John  E.  Parsons, 

Clarence  Goadby,  Nelson  S.  Spencer 

Oswald  G.  Vdllard. 

CLASS  OF  1904. 
Wheeler  H.  Peckham,         Charles  H.  Strong, 
Abraham  Van  Santyoord,      George  W.  Van  Slyck, 

Chalmers  Wood. 


THE  COUNCIL. 


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THE  COUNCIL 

1900-1901. 


(Elected  April  4th,  1900,  to  serve  one  year.) 


R.  R.  Bowker,  Chairman. 

Frank  J.  Goodnow,  V ice-Chairman. 

James  W.  Pryor,  Secretary. 

V.  Everit  Macy,  Treasurer. 
George  M.  Cassatt,  Adolphe  Openhym, 

Horace  E.  Deming,  Thomas  R.  Slicer, 

William  C.  Le  Gendre,  Simon  Sterne, 

Everett  P.  Wheeler. 

EX-OFFICIO  MEMBERS. 
The  President  of  the  Club: 
Wheeler  H.  Peckham. 
The  Vice-President  of  the  Club: 
R.  Fulton  Cutting. 


Office  of  the  Council, 
19  West  34th  Street.     Telephone,  48  Thirty-Eighth  St. 


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THE  CITY  CLUB  OF  NKW  YORK. 


STANDING  COMMITTEES 
OF  THE  CLUB. 


COMMITTEE  OF  AUDIT. 
Frederick  Middlebrook,  Chairman, 
F.  C.  Huntington,  Henry  Holt. 

HOUSE  COMMITTEE. 
James  R.  Burnet,  Chairman, 
Edward  S.  Lentilhon,  Wm.  C.  Le  Gendre. 

COMMITTEE  ON  THE  LIBRARY. 
Frederick  Middlebrook,  Chairman, 
Geo.  M.  Cassatt,  Charles  Taber. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MEMBERSHIP. 
Clarence  Goadby,  Chairman, 

.  CLASS  OF  1901. 
Clarence  W.  Bowen,      Roland  Holt, 
Lea  McI.  Luouer,  Frederick  W.  Longfellow, 

Edwtard  S.  Lentilhon,    E.  Mortimer  Ward. 

CLASS  OF  1902. 
Arthur  F.  Cosby,  John  A.  McKim, 

Frank  J.  Ransom,  Walter  D.  Edmonds, 

Edwin  T.  Rice,  Jr.  Charles  Tatham. 

CLASS  OF  1903. 
Benjamin  Barker,  Charles  Taber, 

J.  Carroll  Beckwith,    W.  Franklin  Brush, 
Ramsay  Turnbull,         (One  Vacancy.) 


COUNCIL  COMMITTEES. 


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OF  THE  COUNCIL. 


LEGISLATION. 

Horace  E.  Deming,  Chairman, 
Frederick  H.  Allen,        Lester  W.  Clark, 
Joseph  G.  Deane,  Paul  Fuller, 

William  Travers  Jerome,  William  Allaire  Shortt, 
Nelson  S.  Spencer,  Charles  H.  Strong, 

William  Gordon  Ver  Planck. 


MUNICIPAL  GOVERNMENT. 

Thomas  R.  Slicer,  Chairman, 
E.  W.  Bemis,  Charles  P.  Blank  v. 

Arthur  F.  Cosby,  Edward  L.  Heydecker, 

Jacob  W.  Mack,  Fulton  McMahon, 

Charles  C.  Nadal,  ■»  John  Nicolson,  Jr., 

James  W.  Pryor,  James  B.  Reynolds, 

Oswald  Garrison  Villakd. 


FINANCE. 
Adolphe  Openhym,  Chairman, 
Wm.  C.  Le  Gendre,  V.  Everit  Macy, 

James  W.  Pryor,  Frank  Tucker. 

ON  PUBLICATION  AND  RECORDS. 
James  W.  Pryor,  Chairman, 
R.  R.  Bowker,  Frank  J.  Goodnow. 


ON  CO-OPERATION  AND  AFFILIATED  CLUBS. 
George  M.  Cassatt,  Chairman, 
Thomas  R.  Slicer.  Everett  P.  Wheeler. 


ON  ORGANIZATION. 
George  M.  Cassatt,  Chairman, 
Thomas  R.  Slicer,  Everett  P.  Wheeler 


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PROPOSALS  FOR  MEMBERSHIP. 

The  Secretary  of  the  Committee  shall  prepare  a  blank 
form,  upon  which  all  nominations  for  membership  shall 
be  made.  It  shall  contain  a  statement  that  the  candi- 
date is  in  sympathy  with  the  objects  of  the  Club,  and 
give  the  name  of  the  candidate  in  full,  his  business  and 
residence  addresses,  the  nature  of  his  business, and  his  age. 
It  shall  be  signed  by  the  proposer  and  seconder  of  the 
candidate  ;  but  they  may  in  writing  authorize  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Committee  to  sign  for  them.  The  proposers 
and  seconders  of  candidates  for  resident  membership 
must  be  resident  members  of  the  Club. 

Candidates  for  non-resident  membership  may  be  pro- 
posed or  seconded  by  either  resident  or  non-resident 
members  of  the  Club. 

Each  proposer  and  seconder  shall  also  write  to  the 
Committee  a  letter  of  recommendation  of  the  candidate, 
giving  such  particulars  about  him  as  will  aid  the  Com- 
mittee in  their  deliberations.  All  such  letters  shall  be 
considered  as  confidential  and  no  members  of  the  Com- 
mittee shall  be  at  liberty  to  disclose  the  contents. 

No  member  of  the  Committee  shall  either  propose  or 
second  a  candidate. 


POSTING. 

When  a  nomination  of  a  candidate  for  membership  has 
been  received,  together  with  the  letters  of  recommenda- 
tion from  his  proposer  and  seconder,  his  name  and  the 
names  of  his  proposer  and  seconder  shall  be  forthwith 
posted  upon  the  bulletin  board  of  the  Club.  But  the 
name  of  no  candidate  shall  be  brought  before  the  Com- 
mittee for  action  until  his  name  shall  have  been  posted 
as  aforesaid,  for  at  least  two  weeks. 


In  Jltaoriam 


1893. 

R.  T.  Al'CHMUTY, 

Henry  Astor  Carey, 
Julius  Catlin, 
Charles  Carroll  Lee, 
James  E.  Grannis, 
Daniel  Lord,  Jr., 
G.  P.  Lowrey, 
George  C.  Magoun, 
Walter  Vaught. 

1894. 
Fordyce  D.  Barker, 
John  Jay, 

Russell  Marquand, 
J.  Hood  Wright. 

1895. 

Abraham  C.  Bernheim, 
Rev.  Arthur  Brooks, 
W.  Gayer  Dominick, 
John  T.  Hall, 
Richard  M.  Hunt, 
John  H.  Iselin, 
Dr.  Stephen  A.  Main, 
George  A.  Robbins, 
James  F.  Ruggles, 
Wm.  H.  Schieffelin, 
James  B.  Skehan. 

1896. 
Francis  C.  Barlow, 
Benjamin  H.  Bristow, 
Bayard  Clarke, 
John  S.  Ellis, 
George  Gordon, 


Joseph  W.  Harper, 
Richard  Iryin, 
Henry  Ketaltas, 
George  Munro. 

1897. 
C.  H.  P.  Babcock, 
James  M.  Bailey, 
Dayid  J.  Dean, 
Charles  B.  Fosdick, 
•  W.  T.  Lusk, 
Daniel  G.  Rollins, 
William  A.  Stiles, 
Frederick  Taylor. 

1898. 

Gerard  I.  Whitehead, 
James  A.  Roosevelt, 
Col.  Geo.  E.  Waring,  Jr. 

1899. 
Charles  P.  Daly, 
Rufus  W.  Peckham,  Jr., 
William  H.  Webb, 
Benjamin  W.  Schwab, 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt. 

1900. 
George  H.  Bend, 
Frederick  Bronson, 
Dorman  B.  Eaton, 
Perciyal  Knauth, 
Herbert  Schurz, 
George  Work. 


MEMBERS 


RESIDENT  MEMBERS 


Edward  D.  Adams  35  Wall  St.  &  15  Broad  St. 

Fblix  Adler  123  East  60th  Street 

John  G.  Agar  31  Nassau  Street 

A.  Gifford  Agnew  7  Nassau  Street 

George  B.  Agnew  7  Nassau  Street 

J.  Lawrence  Allen  128  East  29th  Street 

Henry  A.  Appelius  155  Broadway 

Clarence  D.  Ashley  63  Wall  Street 

John  Jacob  Astor   23  West  26th  Street 

Grosyenor  Atterbury  18  West  34th  Street 

Samuel  P.  Ayery  4  East  38th  Street 

Samuel  P.  Ayery,  Jr  4  East  38th  Street 

Dayid  Banks  20  Murray  Street 

Benjamin  Barker  120  Broadway 

Donn  Barber   635  Park  Avenue 

Edmund  L.  Baylies  54  Wall  Street 

Paul  Bayne  222  Broadway 

Chas.  C.  Beaman  52  Wall  Street 

Henry  W.  Bean  11  William  Street 

].  Carroll  Beckwith  58  West  57th  Street 

E.  Kirkpatrick  Beddall  35  Pine  Street 

Gerard  Beekman  47  Cedar  Street 

Henry  R.  Beekman  Countv  Court  House 


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James  H.  Benedict  29  Broad  Street 

Harold  Latourette  Bennet  53  Broadway 

William  M.  Bennett  100  Broadway 

Henry  W.  Bibby  52  Exchange  Place 

Edward  R.  Biddle  73  Leonard  Street 

Nathan  Bijur  34  Nassau  Street 

Cortlandt  F.  Bishop  13  Madison  Avenue 

Heber  R.  Bishop  15  Broad  Street 

S.  H.  Bishop  19  West  34th  Street 

Robert  F.  Bixby  31  Nassau  Street 

Eli  Whitney  Blake  11  Broadway 

Charles  P.  Blaney  30  Broad  Street 

George  T.  Bliss  28  Nassau  Street 

Wm.  D.  Bloodgood  503  Fifth  Avenue 

T.  M.  Boyd  89  Front  Street 

Clarence  W.  Bowen  130  Fulton  Street 

Francis  Draper  Bowne  201  West  87th  Street 

Lauter  Sydney  Bracher  Stockport,  England 

Edson  Bradley  45  Broadway 

Owen  Brainard  28  East  41st  Street 

Welliam  Tenney  Brewster  Columbia  University 

Arthur  y.  Briesen  229  Broadway 

William  L.  Brower  26  West  25th  Street 

John  Crosby  Brown  59  Wall  Street 

Vernon  H.  Brown  4  Bowling  Green 

Silas  B.  Brownell  71  Wall  Street 

John  A.  Browning  Dakota,  72d  Street,  West 

W.  F.  Brush  16  East  37th  Street 

Charles  C.  Burlingham  45  William  Street 

ames  R.  Burnet  141  Broadway 


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Charles  Butler  10  East  23d  Street 

Franklin  C.  Butler  28  East  41st  Street 

Nicholas  Murray  Butler  119  East  30th  Street 

H.  H.  Cam mann  51  Liberty  Street 

George  F.  Canfield  48  Wall  Street 

Henry  L.  Cargill  281  Fourth  Avenue 

Churchill  Carmalt  40  East  58th  Street 

James  C  Carter  54  Wall  Street 

Clarence  Cary  59  Wall  Street 

George  If.  Cassatt  327  Broadway 

Winthrop  Astor  Chanler  319  Fifth  Avenue 

John  Jay  Chapman  56  Wall  Street 

William  G.  Choate  40  Wall  Street 

Edward  S.  Clark  25  West  23d  Street 

J.  W.  Clark  77  Leonard  Street 

William  B.  Clark  50  East  31  st  Street 

William  N.  Clark  170  William  Street 

William  A.  Coffin  58  West  57th  Street 

William  N.  Cohen  22  William  Street 

Everett  Colby  11  Broadway 

Frank  R.  Cordley  40  Wall  Street 

Alexander  Coles  1  West  30th  Street 

Lathrop  Colgate  50  East  57th  Street 

Stephen  W.  Collins  69  Wall  Street 

Seth  Cook  Comstock  6  West  70th  Street 

Louis  Congdon  45  Exchange  Place 

Clarence  R.  Conger  37  Liberty  Street 

Alfred  R.  Conkling  170  Broadway 

Charles  W.  Cooper  113  East  21st  Street 


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Edward  Cooper  13  Burling  Slip 

Arthur  F.  Cosby  24  West  45th  Street 

Frederick  R.  Coudert,  Jr  71  Broadway 

Edwin  Marion  Cox,  Jr  126  East  34th  Street 

Seymour  L.  Cromwell  30  Broad  Street 

James  G.  Croswell  17  West  44th  Street 

George  M.  Cumming  21  Cortland  Street 

William  Edmond  Curtis  30  Broad  Street 

R.  Bayard  Cutting  32  Nassau  Street 

R.  Fulton  Cutting  32  Nassau  Street 

W.  Bayard  Cutting  32  Nassau  Street 

Charles  L.  Dana  50  West  46th  Street 

Richard  Curd  Daniels  2  Wall  Street 

J.  Clarence  Daves  149th  St.  &  3d  Avenue 

Julien  T.  Davies  32  Nassau  Street 

Joseph  G.  Deane  35  Nassau  Street 

E.  J.  DeCoppet  314  West  85th  Street 

Robert  W.  DeForest  30  Broad  Street 

Eckford  Craven  deKay  50  West  9th  Street 

Frederick  P.  Delafield  29  Liberty  Street 

Lewis  L.  Delafield  1  Nassau  Street 

Horace  E.  Deming  11  WTilliam  Street 

Frederick  J.  DePeyster  Ill  Broadway 

George  W.  Dibble  31  Broad  Street 

Thomas  Dillingham  8  West  49th  Street 

Frank  H.  Dodd  149  Fifth  Avenue 

Cleveland  H.  Dodge  11  Cliff  Street 

William  Earl  Dodge  11  Cliff  Street 

Edward  K.  Dunham  338  East  26th  Street 


RESIDENT  MEMBERS. 


71 


James  H.  Dunham  340  Broadway 

Charles  A.  Duviyier  22  Warren  Street 

Henry  M.  Earle  46  West  53d  Street 

Walter  D.  Edmonds  31  Nassau  Street 

Arthur  H.  Ely  56  Wall  Street 

Horace  S.  Ely  64  Cedar  Street 

Edward  F.  Emmett  20  Nassau  Street 

Henry  C.  Eno  Ill  Broadway 

J.  Langdon  Erying  17  West  50th  Street 

James  Eyying  260  West  57th  Street 

Ernest  G.  Fabbri  Scarborough,  N.  Y. 

H.  C.  Fahnestock  2  Wall  Street 

William  Fahnestock  2  Wall  Street 

George  E.  Fahys  54  Maiden  Lane 

Benjamin  T.  Fairchild   2  Duane  Street 

Charles  N.  Fairchild  38  Union  Square 

Edward  H.  Fallows  18  Wall  Street 

James  C.  Fargo  65  Broadway 

Livingston  Farrand  Columbia  College 

John  P.  Faure  70  Franklin  Street 

Haley  Fiske  1  Madison  Avenue 

Homer  Folks  105  East  22d  Street 

John  Foord  312  Manhattan  Avenue 

Austin  G.  Fox  45  Wall  Street 

Algernon  S.  Frissell  530  Fifth  Avenue 

Paul  Fuller  71  Broadway 

Louis  M.  Fulton  31  Nassau  Street 

Thomas  A.  Fulton  42  East  23d  Street 


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Theodore  Kane  Gibbs  146  Broadway 

Richard  Watson  Gilder  33  East  17th  Street 

Charles  Monteith  Gilpin  64  West  68th  Street 

Arthur  Goadby  21  West  35th  Street 

Clarence  Goadby  501  Fifth  Avenue 

William  H.  Goadby  24  Broad  Street 

Frank  J.  Goodnow  49  Riverside  Avenue 

James  J.  Goodwin  11  West  54th  Street 

Clarence  Gordon   76th  Street  &  East  River 

Benjamin  A.  Gould  29  Liberty  Street 

Charles  W.  Gould  2  Wall  Street 

Elgin  R.  L.  Gould  281  Fourth  Avenue 

De  Forest  Grant  22  East  49th  Street 

Alister  Greene  1  East  62d  Street 

Daniel  Paine  Griswold  62  West  12th  Street 

J.  N.  A.  Griswold  71  South  Street 

Arpad  S.  Grossmann  222  Broadway 

William  C.  Gulliver  120  Broadway 

Frank  S.  Hackett  7  West  107th  Street 

Thos.  Jewett  Hallowell  127  West  58th  Street 

J.  Hooker  Hammersley  1030  Fifth  Avenue 

Anson  W.  Hard  107  Wall  Street 

J.  Montgomery  Hare... (P.  O.  Box  3043). ..56  Pine  Street 

S.  Carman  Harriot  454  West  23d  Street 

Steven  Haskell  Ill  Fifth  Avenue 

Frank  S.  Hastings  29  Broad  Street 

Geo.  S.  Hastings  265  Broadway 

Thomas  Hastings  .28  East  41st  Street 

Abner  J.  Haydel  156  Fifth  Avenue 


RESIDENT  MEMBERS. 


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J.  Noble  Hayes  120  Broadway 

Edward  C.  Henderson  59  Wall  Street 

Wm.  Herbert  11  Pine  Street 

Abram  S.  Hewitt  13  Burling  Slip 

Edward  L.  Heydecker  Ill  Broadway 

James  J.  Higginson  16  East  41st  Street 

Chas.  Frederick  Hoffman,  Jr  4-  Warren  Street 

Eugene  A.  Hoffman  1  Chelsea  Square 

Robert  J.  Hoguet  Riverside  Drive  &  141st  Street 

Wm.  S.  Hough  44  West  44th  Street 

Daniel  J.  Holden  100  Broadway 

Edwin  B.  Holden  1  Broadway 

Henry  Holt  29  West  23d  Street 

L.  Emmett  Holt  14  West  55th  Street 

Roland  Holt  29  West  23d  Street 

Wtilliam  B.  Hornblower  30  Broad  Street 

William  P.  Howe.*  26  Broadway 

Archer  M.  Huntington  Pleasance,  Baychester,  City 

Francis  C.  Huntington  48  Wall  Street 

E.  Francis  Hyde  835  Fifth  Avenue 

Talbot  B.  T.  Hyde  20  West  53d  Street 


Myer  S.  Isaacs  

Adrian  Iselin  

Henry  S.  Iselin.... 
William  E.  Iselin. 
William  M.  Ivins 


 27  Pine  Street 

23  East  26th  Street 
....267  Fifth  Avenue 

 1  Greene  Street 

...27  William  Street 


Abraham  Jacobi  

Edward  G.  Janeway 


100  West  34th  Street 
..36  West  40th  Street 


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William  Jay  48  Wall  Street 

Frederic  B.  Jennings  15  Broad  Street 

W.  Travers  Jerome  535  West  148th  Street 

J.  Augustus  Johnson  43  Cedar  Street 

Bradish  Johnson,  Jr  39  Cortlandt  Street 

Frederick  R.  Jones  45  William  Street 


Otto  H.  Kahn  

S.  Nicholson  Kane  

David  Keane  

John  S.  Kennedy  

J.  Frederic  Kernochan.. 

William  F.  King  

Chas.  La  Rue  Kingsley 
Francis  P.  Kinntcutt... 

Gustay  E.  Kissel  

Arnold  H.  Knapp  

S.  Adolph  Knopf  

William  Krebs  

Henry  R.  Kunhardt  .... 


 27  Pine  Street 

23  West  47th  Street 

 20  Broad  Street 

 31  Nassau  Street 

 44  Pine  Street 

 410  Broadway 

 35  Wall  Street 

.39  East  35th  Street 

 54  Wall  Street 

26  West  40th  Street 
,16  West  95th  Street 

 69  Wall  Street 

 32  Beaver  Street 


Francis  E.  Laimbeer 
James  Warren  Lane. 
Woodbury  Langdon... 

J.  D.  Lange  

Joseph  Larocque  

Cyrus  J.  Lawrence... 
Henry  C.  Lawrence. 


 206  Broadway 

..110  Worth  Street 
...108  Worth  Street 
,477  Broome  Street 

 40  Wall  Street 

 31  Broad  Street 

 15  Wall  Street 


RESIDENT  MEMBERS. 


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Richard  Hoe  Lawrence  15  Wall  Street 

William  T.  Lawson  32  Nassau  Street 

Xkwhury  D.  Lawton  40  Wall  Street 

John  Brooks  Leayitt  Ill  Broadway 

Albert  R.  Ledoux  98  John  Street 

William  C.  LeGendre  59  Wall  Street 

Louis  A.  Lehmaier  78  Beekman  Street 

Edward  S.  Lentilhon  46  Cedar  Street 

F.  W.  Lincoln,  Jr  58  New  Street 

Electus  D.  Litchfield  19  West  34th  Street 

William  Littauer  147  East  36th  Street 

Benont  Lock  wood  53  William  Street 

Benoni  LocKWOod,  Jr  30  Broad  Street 

James  Loeb  27  Pine  Street 

Edward  V.  Loew  175  Broadway 

Frederick  W.  Longfellow  29  Liberty  Street 

Richard  P.  Lounsbery  15  Broad  Street 

Seth  Low  30  East  64th  Street 

James  B.  Ludlow  45  Cedar  Street 

Lea  McL  Luquer  321  West  80th  Street 

Rollin  H.  Lynde  31  Pine  Street 

John  Lynn  48  Bond  Street 

Jacob  W.  Mack  92  Liberty  Street 

George  H.  Macy  142  Pearl  Street 

Nelson  Macy  78  Beekman  Street 

V.  Eyerit  Macy  80  Broad  Street 

Alexander  Maitland  45  Broadway 

Alfred  L.  Manierre  31  Nassau  Street 

Peter  Marie  6  East  37th  Street 


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Alfred  E.  Marling  64  Cedar  Street 

Charles  Clinton  Marshall  30  Broad  Street 

Charles  H.  Marshall  7  Nassau  Street 

John  Martin  184  Eldridge  Street 

Newell  Martin  7  Nassau  Street 

John  Miller  Masury  240  West  42d  Street 

Wilbur  Knox  Mathews  40  Wall  Street 

George  McAneny  54  William  Street 

Louis  Butler  McCagg  291  Madison  Avenue 

John  J.  McCook  120  Broadway 

Allan  McCulloh  120  Broadway 

Charles  F.  McKim  160  Fifth  Avenue 

John  A.  McKim  18  Wall  Street 

Fulton  McMahon  Ill  Broadway 

Chas.  Arthur  Meade  303  East  18th  Street 

Frederick  Middlebrook  Grand  Central  Station 

Robert  S.  Minturn  11  Broadway 

Ernest  Mitchell  74  Leonard  Street 

James  MacDonald  Mitchell  74  Leonard  Street 

John  A.  Mitchell  19  West  31st  Street 

Richard  M.  Montgomery  28  Pine  Street 

Edward  C.  Moore,  Jr  32  Nassau  Street 

Arthur  G.  Morris  37  Wall  Street 

Henry  Lewis  Morris  16  Exchange  Place 

Newbold  Morris  52  East  72d  Street 

Franklin  W.  Moulton  82  East  55th  Street 

James  B.  Murray  69  Wall  Street 


Charles  C.  Nadal... 
John  McLean  Nash 


97  Cedar  Street 
...63  Wall  Street 


RESIDENT  MEMBERS. 


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Randolph  M.  Newman  149  Broadway 

Morton  C.  Nichols  220  Broadway 

John  Nicholson,  Jr  41  Wall  Street 

A.  Gordon  Norrie  377  Fifth  Avenue 

Gordon  Norrie  41  Wall  Street 

Lewis  M.  Norwtood  135  Broadway 

B.  H.  Norton   46  Cedar  Street 

H.  Cruger  Oakley  52  Broadway 

John  A.  O'Connor  12  East  44th  Street 

Hamilton  Odell  35  Nassau  Street 

David  B.  Ogden  Ill  Broadway 

Stephen  H.  Olin  32  Nassau  Street 

Robert  Olyphant  21  Cortlandt  Street 

Adolphe  Openhym  42  Greene  Street 

Oswald  Ottendorfer  Staats-Zeitung  Building 

Edward  D.  Page  66  Leonard  Street 

William  Gray  Park  71  Broadway 

Samuel  L.  Parrish  44  Broadway 

Herbert  Parsons  Ill  Broadway 

John  E.  Parsons  Ill  Broadway 

William  H.  Parsons  257  Broadway 

George  Foster  Peabody  27  Pine  Street 

George  Livingston  Peabody  57  West  38th  Street 

D.  Appleton  Pearson  12  East  47th  Street 

Wheeler  H.  Peckham  80  Broadway 

John  P.  Peters  227  West  99th  Street 

William  S.  Pfender  451  West  23d  Street 

Thomas  A.  Phelan  93  Front  Street 


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Phillips  Phoenix  68  Broad  Street 

Franklin  Pierce  31  Nassau  Street 

Amos  R.  E.  Pinchot  2  GramercY  Park 

Gifford  Pinchot... Washington,  D.  C....1705  R.  I.  Ave. 

James  W.  Pinchot  2  Gramercy  Park 

Percy  R.  Pine,  Jr  55  Liberty  Street 

Charles  A.  B.  Pratt  Ill  Broadway 

Robert  Kelly  Prentice  52  Broadway 

George  Lewis  Prentiss  31  Nassau  Street 

James  W.  Pryor  19  West  34th  Street 

Charles  R.  L.  Putnam  114  East  38th  Street 

George  Haven  Putnam  29  West  23d  Street 

Lemuel  E.  Quigg  210  West  70th  Street 

Frank  J.  Ransom  16  West  21st  Street 

James  B.  Reynolds  184  Eldridge  Street 

Frederic  W.  Rhinelander  289  Madison  Avenue 

Edwin  T.  Rice,  Jr  59  Wall  Street 

Francis  Peabody  Rice  57  Bethune  Street 

Herman  Ridder  Staats-Zeitung  Building 

John  Lawrence  Riker  46  Cedar  Street 

Samuel  Riker,  Jr  145  Nassau  Street 

George  L.  Rives..  32  Nassau  Street 

William  Cabell  Rives  289  Madison  Avenue 

C.  S.  Rodman    28  East  40th  Street 

W.  Harris  Roome  40  Wall  Street 

W.  Emlen  Roosevelt  33  Wall  Street 

Bertram  T.  Rose  28  Nassau  Street 

Francis  M.  Roser  19  West  34th  Street 

Charles  Howl  and  Russell  15  Broad  Street 


RESIDENT  MEMBERS. 


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Benjamin  Aymar  Sands  58  West  48th  Street 

Reginald  Hall  Sayre  285  Fifth  Avenue 

Spottswood  D.  Schenck  32  Nassau  Street 

Thomas  E.  Satterthwaite  7  East  80th  Street 

F.  Augustus  Schermerhorn  41  Liberty  Street 

William  C.  Schermerhorn  41  Liberty  Street 

William  Jay  Schieffelin  5  East  66th  Street 

E.  A.  Schroeder  178  Water  Street 

Carl  Lincoln  Schurz  239  Broadway 

M.  Roosevelt  Schuyler  99  Pearl  Street 

Gustav  H.  Schwab  2  Bowling  Green 

Henry  D.  Sedgwick,  Jr  45  Cedar  Street 

E.  R.  A.  Seligman  324  West  86th  Street 

W.  G.  Sewall  29  East  77th  Street 

Charles  H.  Shaw  35  Wall  Street 

George  Gregory  Shelton  521  Madison  Avenue 

Augustus  D.  Shepard,  Jr  156  Fifth  Avenue 

William  Watts  Sherman  838  Fifth  Avenue 

Harold  Blake  Sherwin  92  Clinton  Place 

Francis  Louis  Slade  49  Cedar  Street 

Thomas  R.  Slicer  27  West  76th  Street 

Henry  T.  Sloane  884  Broadway 

Charles  Robinson  Smith  7  Nassau  Street 

Frederick  A.  Snow  15  Wall  Street 

Arthur  W.  Soper  160  Broadway 

Nelson  S.  Spencer  31  Nassau  Street 

James  Speyer  P.  0.  Box  477 

Frank  J.  Sprague  253  Broadway 

J.  Noble  Stearns  68  Greene  Street 

J.  Bethune  Stein  30  W.  15th  Street 


80  THE  CITY  CLUB  OF  NEW  YORK. 

Simon  Sterne  56  Beaver  Street 

John  Steward,  Jr  13  West  21st  Street 

Anson  Phelps  Stokes  47  Cedar  Street 

Isaac  N.  Phelps  Stokes  47  Cedar  Street 

James  Stokes  47  Cedar  Street 

J.  G.  Phelps  Stokes  47  Cedar  Street 

Frederick  Strauss  15  Broad  Street 

Charles  Howard  Strong  Ill  Broadway 

William  E.  Strong  30  Broad  Street 

Rutherfurd  Stuyvesant  16  Exchange  Place 

Charles  Taber  28  East  28th  Street 

Charles  Tatham  82  Beekman  Street 

Edwin  Tatham  82  Beekman  Street 

Louis  C.  Tiffany  333  Fourth  Avenue 

Wm.  K.  Tillotson  1  West  81st  Street 

Henry  C.  Tinker  143  Liberty  Street 

Julian  R.  Tinkham  30  Broad  Street 

J.  Kennedy  Tod  45  Wall  Street 

Howard  Townsend  32  Nassau  Street 

Spencer  Trask  27  Pine  Street 

Frank  Tucker  105  East  22d  Street 

J.  E.  Tucker  32  Nassau  Street 

Preble  Tucker  92  Liberty  Street 

Ramsay  Turnbull  15  Broad  Street 

Hamilton  McK.  Twombly  15  Broad  Street 


J.  Howard  Van  Amringe.. 
George  W.  Vanderbilt.... 
Abraham  Van  Santvoord 


204  West  44th  Street 

 640  Fifth  Avenue 

 Ill  Broadway 


RESIDENT  MEMBERS. 


si 


George  W.  Van  Slyck  120  Broadway 

William  Gordon  Verplanck  149  Broadway 

Harold  Garrison  Villard  141  Broadway 

Henry  Villard  30  Broad  Street 

Oswald  Garrison  Villard   206  Broadway 


George  L.  Walker  234  West  104th  Street 

Artemas  Ward  3  Union  Square  West 

E.  Mortimer  Ward  43  South  Street 

Henry  Galbraith  Ward  160  Broad  way 

William  R.  Ware  130  East  27th  Street 

Ernest  Warrin  36  Dey  Street 

J.  H.  Washburn  119  Broadway 

Albert  L.  Webster  Wall  &  Broad  Streets 

R.  W.  G.  Welling  2  Wall  Street 

Frederick  DeWitt  Wells  55  Liberty  Street 

Jacob  Wendell,  Jr  26  Cortlandt  Street 

Hendrik  P.  Wertheim  27  William  Street 

Hampton  G.  Westcott  26  Broadway 

Everett  P.  Wheeler  21  State  Street 

George  G.  Wheelock  75  Park  Avenue 

W.  Bell  Waite,  Jr  31  Nassau  Street 

Chas.  E.  Wdllard  71  Broadway 

Horace  White  206  Broadway 

Stanford  White  160  Filth  Avenue 

Charles  E.  Whitehead  71  Broadway 

Nathaniel  Whitman  502  Broadway 

Albert  Wilcox  27  William  Street 

Franklin  A.  Wilcox  1  Broadway 

Sidney  F.  Wilcox  51  West  52d  Street 


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John  T.  Wdlletts  303  Pearl  Street 

Charles  E.  Williams  800  Eighth  Avenue 

Edward  Winslow  P.  O.  Box  486 

Joseph  E.  Winters  25  West  37th  Street 

Bronson  Winthrop  32  Nassau  Street 

Egerton  L.  Winthrop  23  East  33d  Street 

Egerton  L.  Winthrop,  Jr  48  Wall  Street 

Grenville  L.  Wtinthrop  40  Wall  Street 

Abraham  Wolff  27  Pine  Street 

Chalmers  Wood  Ill  Broadway 

Richard  N.  Young  11  Pine  Street 

Andrew  C.  Zabriskie  52  Beaver  Street 

George  Zabriskie  15  Broad  Street 

Richard  A.  Zerega  101  Classon  Ave.,  Brooklyn 


SUBURBAN  MEMBERS 


Frederick  H.  Allen  63  Wall  Street 

John  D.  Barry  16  East  32d  Street 

George  E.  Blackwell  63  Wall  Street 

Clarence  Mason  Blake.. .Arbuckle  Building,  Brooklyn 

Theodore  E.  Blake  28  East  41st  Street 

R.  R.  Bowker  274  Lafayette  Avenue,  Brooklyn 

Charles  Loring  Brace  287  Fourth  Avenue 

Albert  S.  Burlingham  150  Nassau  Street 

John  M.  Carrere  28  East  41st  Street 

Charles  L.  Case  44  Pine  Street 

Lester  W.  Clark  20  Broad  Street 

Alfred  W.  Cooley  Westchester,  N.  Y. 

W.  J.  Curtis  45  Wall  Street 

Henry  P.  Davison  143  Liberty  Street 

Henry  W.  Goodrich  59  Wall  Street 

George  J.  Greenfield  35  Broadway 

Percy  Griffin  9  Hanover  Square 


Winston  H.  Hagen, 
De  Laguel  Haigh.. 


59  Wall  Street 
.11  Broadway 


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A.  S.  Haight  49  Leonard  Street 

James  M.  Halstead  97  Front  Street 

John  G.  Howard  10  East  23d  Street 

Boudinot  Keith  Ill  Broadway 

Wm.  H.  Maxwell  283  Henry  Street,  Brooklyn 

Charles  F.  March  56  Pine  Street 

Robert  H.  McNall  26  Broadway 

Homer  B.  Mann  Ill  Fifth  Avenue 

Howard  N.  Potter. ...Constable  Building,  Fifth  Avenue 

Albert  S.  Richey  127  Penn  Street,  Brooklyn 

Allan  Robinson  11  William  Street 

Chas.  W.  Rodman,  Jr  59  Liberty  Street 

H.  H.  Rodman  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

Edwin  H.  Sayre  68  Hudson  Street 

Frank  H.  Scott  33  East  17th  Street 

Albert  Shaw  13  Astor  Place 

William  Allaire  Shortt  35  Broadway 

Dexter  O.  Tiffany  27  Pine  Street 


Wm.  J.  Wallace  

Elwyn  Waller  

H.  Walter  Webb.... 
Philip  H.  Williams 
Boardman  Wright.. 
Wn.LiAM  G.  Wright. 


 1  Union  Square 

..Morristown,  N.J. 
Scarborough,  N.  Y. 
..Tarry town,  N.  Y. 

 56  Pine  Street 

 97  Cedar  Street 


NON-RESIDENT  MEMBERS 


E.  W.  Bemis  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Samuel  H.  Bishop  Orange,  N.  J. 

F.  A.  Bostwick  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Thomas  M.  Boyd  223  Fifth  Avenue 

C.  F.  Carrier... Columbian  Building,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Charles  E.  Carusi  29  Liberty  Street 

Jos.  H.  Choate  52  Wall  Street 

George  Henry  Clements  Flushing,  L.  I. 

Joseph  H.  Coit  Concord,  N.  H. 

Stanton  Coit  London,  England 

James  W.  Colt  Geneseo,  N.  Y. 

Frederick  Crane  Bloomfield,  N.  J. 

Edward  S.  Craven  Geneseo,  N.  Y. 

Ralph  N.  Ellis  Westbury,  L.  I. 

E.  Franklin  Elmore  199  Second  Street,  Troy,  N.Y. 

C.  Temple  Emmett  371  West  74th  Street 

Edward  Everett  15  Court  Square,  Boston,  Mass. 

William  H.  Garth  Wakefield,  R.  I. 


James  C.  Hartt  313  Peel  Street,  Montreal 

James  R.  Hatmaker...30  St.  James  Square  S.  W.  London 


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THE  CITY  CLUB  OF  NEW  YORK. 


Edmond  Hayes  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

William  A.  Hayes  28  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Willis  B.Holcombe,281  Pleasant  St.New  Bedford, Mass. 

F.  H.  Holden  10  East  23d  Street 

Geo.  G.  Hood  Mt.  Airy,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 

Otis  King  Hutchinson. ...99  Randolph  St..  Chicago,  111. 

Francis  L.  Johnson  West  Nyack,  N.  Y. 

Wilmot  Johnson,  Jr  West  Nyack,  N.  Y. 

John  Augustus  Just,  109  W.  Kennedy  St.,  Syracuse,  N.Y. 

Edmond  Kelly  24  Boulevard  Capucina,  Paris 

Percy  R.  King  Wall  and  Broad  Streets 

Lea  Luquer  Bedford,  N.  Y. 

Nicholas  Luquer,  1443  R.  I.  Avenue, Washington,  D.  C 

C.  S.  Maurice  Athens,  Pa 

H.  W.  McKinney  800  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa 

Henry  Metcalfe  Cold  Springs,  N.  Y. 

John  G.  Milburn  Buffalo,  N.  Y 

James  E.  Newell  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Thomas  M.  Osborne  Auburn,  N.  Y. 

James  C.  Parrish  45  Broadway. 

Henry  W.  Peabody  70  Kirby  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

George  D.  Rainsford  Diamond,  Laramie  Co.,  Wyo. 

Ernest  Ryle   54  Howard  Street 

Elihu  Root  32  Liberty  Street 


NON-RESIDENT  MEMBERS. 


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William  Cary  Sanger  Sangerfield,  N.  Y. 

Alexander  Sedgwick  Stockbridge,  Mass. 

Theodore  Sedgwick  532  Fifth  Avenue 

J.  Hopkins  Smith  Portland,  Me. 

Augustus  St.  Gaudens  Paris,  France 

Frederick  F.  Sanford  Cleveland,  Ohio 

A.  Blah?  Thaw,  San  Ysidro  Ranch,  Santa  Barbara,  Cal. 
LeGrand  Cannon  Tibbitts  Hoosick,  N.  Y. 


Augustus  Van  Cortlandt 

James  S.  Wads  worth  

Robert  F.  Wilkinson  

George  Parker  Winship.. 


 Tuxedo,  N.  Y. 

....Geneseo,  N.  Y. 

 Poughkeepsie 

Providence,  R.  I. 


Louis  H.  Zerega, 


Tarrytown,  N.  Y. 


